Where shall we go? The messengers have frightened us with what they told us: the people who live in the land are taller and stronger than we are. The cities are great and are fortified with high walls. We have seen giants there as in times past.’
And you began to murmur in your tents: ‘The Lord does not like us; he made us leave Egypt to turn us over to the Amorites, who in turn will kill us all.
Nevertheless, you did not want to go up into the mountains but rebelled against the commands of the Lord.
And once there, they took with them the fruits of the valley, and upon their return, they recounted to us what they had seen. They told us, ‘The land the Lord gives us is good land.’
who set out and climbed the mountains on foot until they came to the Valley of the Grapevines.
That was a good suggestion, so I took twelve men from among you, one from each tribe,
Then all of you gathered around me and said, ‘Better send some men before us to explore the land and map out the roads leading to the cities where we are to go.’
Look, Israel, at the land the Lord gives you; take possession of what was promised to your ancestors. Do not be afraid or discouraged.’
I said to you: ‘We have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord, our God, gives us.
Sending Spies into Canaanite Territory Finally, having left Horeb, we passed through that vast and terrible desert that we saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord had commanded us, and arriving at Kadesh-Barnea,
